Saranac Lake is a village in the state of New York, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 4,887, making it the largest community by population in the Adirondack Park. The village is named after Upper, Middle and Lower Saranac lakes, which are nearby.
List of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Essex County, New York.
List of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Franklin County, New York
Between 1873 and 1945, Saranac Lake, New York, became a world-renowned center for the treatment of tuberculosis, using a treatment that involved exposing patients to as much fresh air as possible under conditions of complete bed-rest. In the process, a specific building type, the "cure cottage", developed, built by residents seeking to capitalize on the town's fame, by physicians, and often by the patients themselves. Many of these structures are extant, and their historic value has been recognized by listing on The National Register of Historic Places.
The Church Street Historic District is a national historic district located in the village of Saranac Lake (Harrietstown) in Franklin County, New York. The district extends roughly along Church Street from Main Street to St. Bernard Street. It comprises twenty-seven buildings, including three churches, a medical laboratory, ten homes, two libraries, and six cure cottages, most built between the late 1870s and 1900.
Coulter Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake, town of North Elba in Essex County, New York.
Fallon Cottage Annex is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake, town of North Elba in Essex County, New York. It was built in 1901 and is a 2+1⁄2-story, shingled frame house on a coursed fieldstone foundation. It features a hipped roof with three cross gables, a small hipped roof dormer, and an octagonal turret or open cupola in the Queen Anne style. It has a ten-bay verandah, one-third of which is a separate cure porch. It was built as a single family residence and adapted for use as a cure cottage over time, operating as such after 1923.
Hill Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake, town of Harrietstown in Essex and Franklin County, New York. It was built about 1913 and is a two to four story, shingled frame house on a stone foundation, with a jerkinhead gable roof and built into the side of a hill. It features an open first floor porch and second story cure porch on the front facade, four stories of cure porches in the rear, and prominent roof overhangs. It is in the American Craftsman style and designed specifically for use as a private sanatorium.
Kennedy Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake, town of North Elba in Essex County, New York. It was built about 1897 and is a large, 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame rectangular structure in the Queen Anne style. It features a 3-story tower set at a 45-degree angle at the northwest corner of the house, glass-enclosed verandah, and three visible attached cure porches. It was operated as a private sanatorium and the National Vaudeville Philanthropic Association sent patients here before the opening of Will Rogers Memorial Hospital in 1928.
Lent Cottage is a historic apartment house built as a cure cottage located at Saranac Lake, town of North Elba in Essex County, New York. It was built about 1920 and is a 2+1⁄2-story, wood frame, side-gabled structure with two hipped-roofed wings extending from the principal facade. It is in the Colonial Revival style. Each two bedroom apartment features a 9 feet by 13 feet cure porch and the property includes a flagstone patio. It was once operated as a tubercular sanatorium.
Marvin Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake, town of North Elba in Essex County, New York. It was built about 1900 and is a two-story wood frame dwelling with a gable roof that extends from the front of the house to create a verandah. It features a large, gabled cure porch dormer and a second floor sleeping porch. It was operated as a private, non-nursing sanatorium.
Partridge Cottage is a historic apartment house and cure cottage located at Saranac Lake, town of North Elba in Essex County, New York. It was built in 1925 and is a three-story, dwelling surmounted by a metal roof with gables on all four sides. The south gable takes the form of a steeply pitched gambrel. It displays elements of the Colonial Revival style. It features a verandah that extends to a porte cochere and once had three apartments, one on each floor each with an eight feet by ten feet cure porch. Also on the property is a contributing garage. A basement apartment is believed to have been occupied by the owner.
Distin Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake in the town of Harrietstown, Franklin County, New York. It was built about 1920 and is a two-story, "L" shaped wood frame single-family dwelling with Colonial Revival style details. It has a hipped roof with a clipped gable and dormers. It features a cure porch measuring 8 feet by 10 feet. It was designed by architect William G. Distin for his father, photographer William L. Distin.
Hooey Cottage is a historic, cure cottage located at Saranac Lake in the town of Harrietstown, Franklin County, New York. It was built in 1916 and is a 2+1⁄2-story dwelling, two- by four-bay, wood frame residence with a cross-gabled roof on a fieldstone foundation. It features a 2-story cure porch.
Noyes Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake in the town of Harrietstown, Franklin County, New York. It was built about 1898 and enlarged in 1908. It is a three-story, wood-frame dwelling in the Queen Anne style. It has a stone foundation and multi-gabled roof. It features six cure porches, including a two-story porch at the rear.
Freer Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake, Franklin County, New York. It was built about 1920 and modified in 1926–1928. It is a 1+1⁄2-story, wood-frame dwelling with a gambrel roof and 2-story addition in the Colonial Revival style. It features two cure porches. Also on the property is a contributing former garage.
Highland Park Historic District is a national historic district located at Saranac Lake, town of St. Armand, in Essex County, New York. The district contains 21 contributing buildings and one contributing object. It includes 17 private, single-family homes built between 1896 and 1930; most include "cure cottage" features.
Cottage Row Historic District is a national historic district located in Saranac Lake (Harrietstown) in Franklin County, New York. It includes 27 contributing privately owned single-family dwellings built between 1900 and 1940, with the majority constructed between 1907 and 1917. They are mostly two- or three-story, wood-framed structures, with gable or gambrel roofs, dormers, and wood siding or shingles. Most of the residences were operated as commercial, private tuberculosis sanitorium, with characteristic architectural features of the "cure cottage," including second story sleeping porches, extra wide doorways, and call bell systems.
Cure Cottage at 43 Forest Hill Avenue is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake, Essex County, New York. It was built about 1912, and is a two-story, wood-frame dwelling on a stone foundation. It has a steep gable roof with overhanging eaves and is sheathed in clapboard siding. It features a 11.5 ft (3.5 m) by 7.5 ft (2.3 m) second floor cure porch. It remained in use as a cure cottage until 1928.
Alligerville Historic District is a national historic district located at Alligerville, Ulster County, New York. It encompasses 81 contributing buildings, 5 contributing sites, and 8 contributing structures in the hamlet of Alligerville. It developed after 1828 around Lock 21 on the Delaware and Hudson Canal and includes notable examples of Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, and Italian Villa architecture. Notable contributing resources include the John & Catrina Alliger House, Reformed Dutch Church of the Clove Chapel, Ira Brodhead House, John Forbes Hotel, Alligerville Post Office, Thomas S. Schoonmaker Farm (1830), Union Free District No. 1 School, Canal Outbuilding, Hall-Latinville Summer Cottages, and Hall-Barrett Summer Cottage.
